Old enemies in Nicaragua find common cause

La Unión is a 2,000-person farming community in Nicaragua, is slated, along with other communities, to be sacrificed to the Hong Kong-funded Grand Canal.

Some of the farmers living there fought against President Daniel Ortega in the war that tore through Nicaragua in the 1980s. But now they willing to unite with Sandinista farmers, their former enemies, in the struggle against the Canal.




Source: The Guardian